jpleezy19: Although, not an out and out believer in global warming as the boogey man thats going to instantaneously transform the world, the argument is made that by continuing to drive gas guzzlers we are damaging the environment and we should move towards fuel efficiency, suggested above through a gasoline tax.
As a Libertarian though, it seems like there must be a better way to have a more rational way regarding energy use, aside from the need for a gasoline tax. Obviously one way would be to open up domestic oilfields to drilling as discussed in another thread. Please let me know your thoughts.
While I can't give an exact way to solve the gas problem, it's certainly not a crisis. We're not about to run out any time soon even though many would suggest we are. Here's a little excerpt by John Stossel on it.
"records show that when you adjust for inflation the price of gas is now
lower than it's been for most of the twentieth century. Prices are
lower now than they were 25 years ago. Yes, they price is up from the
1998 all time low of $1.19, but they are a dollar lower than they were
in the early 1980s.
I asked people to compare the price of gas to bottled water or ice
cream you can buy inside the gas station. Most people were sure the gas
was more expensive. But they're wrong.
If you took the average price of a bottle of water, a gallon
would cost nearly $7. A gallon of Haagen Dazs ice cream would set you
back nearly $30 -- 15 times the price of gas.
And think about how much harder it is to produce gasoline.
First, oil has to be sucked out of the ground ... sometimes from
deep beneath an ocean or underneath ice or from the Middle East where
workers risk their lives. And just to get to the oil often means the
drill may have to bend and dig sideways through as many five miles of
earth. What oil companies find then has to be delivered through long
pipelines or shipped in monstrously expensive ships, then converted
into three different formulas of gasoline, trucked in trucks that cost
more than $100,000 and then your local gas station has to spend a
fortune on safety devices to make sure you don't blow yourself up."
As far as the global warming...or is it cooling...nope it's warming. Anyway, there's quite a few lies in regard to the global warming that "threatens" our earth. Firstly, CO2 doesn't raise the temperature; actually, a rise in tempeture rises CO2 levels. You see the sun warms up the ocean--which by the way is the main "culprit" of CO2 emissions--and then it takes about 300 years for the ocean to feel the effects of it--since the ocean is gigantic. Then after 300 years the C02 levels rise. I probably screwed up the explanation, so just watch this http://www.moviesfoundonline.com/great_global_warming_swindle.php
It's a movie called the great global warming swindle which outlines the bullshit surrounding the global warming theory.
And lastly regarding taxation, governments caused much of the problems regarding oil, and it's never the government that fixes such problems. Governments have been good at one thing throughout history, and that's f*cking everyone over.
Sorry if I couldn't completely answer your question, but I just don't know enough about the topic to say anything for certain. If you want to find some people who really do know about the topic, check out www.mises.org
"Any system of belief that forces children to lie to attain the praise of their elders is corrupt."
Jason McLaughlin